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I'm happy to take the survey, it will be interesting to see what MSFT works out over the coming months.

Small pet peeve: It'd be nice if you didn't require input on all forms of the survey, especially the open response text fields. I understand if instant.ly doesn't give you an option.

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Thanks, we'll keep that in mind for the next survey. That's something we went back and forth on - those are always some of the most interesting fields, and we didn't want people to consider the field as unimportant and skip it because they were optional. On the other hand, I can see that it would be annoying for it not to tell you you're missing fields until you submit. Maybe we can try editing it tomorrow to do a quick a/b test and see if it has an effect on % (good) responses for those questions...

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